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Chicago examiner wednesday vol xii no 20 a m wednesday Chicago january 1 4 1 9 1 4 registered in u s patent office price one cent _â€¢__! * <*Â«-'*' *â€¢ 30 ctnt pb month thousands perish in japan by lava fire tidal wave volcano quiet 180 years over whelmns towns as islands tremble from earthquake and seas complete devastation starving hordes fleeing for lives are penned in by blazing forests disturbances continue with great violence special cable to the examiner tokio jan 13 â€” japan is a coun try of woe to-night from every part of tlie archipelago roraes news of volcanic action no body knows how many lives have been lost as a result of the terrible seismic disturbances of the day de tails filtering over the telegraph lines tell of frightful loss of life and enormous property damage it is estimated that thousands have per iahed this much is known however the city of kagoshima is de stroyed as a result of the eruption of sakurashima mount kirishima thirty miles north of kagoshima is in violent eruption mount asama in central japan i has begun to erupt ten million japanese in the north ern islands are near starvation as a result of famines but that has been forgotten in the new calamity that has overwhelmed the kingdom thousands are dead the fact that the telegraph lines have been practically put out of commission il responsible for the lack of definite infor mation as to tlie actual number of dead and the extent of the damage it is known however ihat many thousands of lives must have been the toll of the calamity resulting from the eruption of sakurashima sakurashima is on saqura island in th gulf of kagoshima in the southern por tion of the kingdom the town of kago shima is on the mainland several miles from the volcanic island the city is sur rounded by a range of mountains which contain several ancient volcanoes it was â€¢ city of 75,000 persons how many of these were able to escape is unknown the telegraph operator who sent the last message out of the doomed city said le was the only person remaining alive iu the city at the time of his message and he was interrupted iu the middle of a sentence it is supposed that the heroic operator lost his life ashes thrown 90 miles the violence of the eruption was so great that a shower of ashes fell all dn at xagasaki ninety miles from the vol cano the story of an eye witness sent here to-day declared that the great volcano begun us activity when a lurid flan shot thousands of feet into the air then the whole top of the mountaiu seemed to rise and molten lava and rocks of ai sizes were burled through the air ii every direction when the witness last looked upon the mountain he declares it looked like .â€¢ gigantic piece of set fireworks the lava flowing down its sides made the mouu tain glow from base to summit the inhabitants of the western slope of the mountain were most affected by the first explosious the survivors ran to the beach in a frenzy as the flames swept down the mountain side to their village the people flocked to the beach opposite kagoshima there were no boats to take them to the mainland the police of kagoshima appropriated all the available craft in the harbor there and hastened to lend aid to the stricken islanders trapped by lava as the boats sped to the island the heat was intense and the flames ad vanced to the beach so rapidly that hun dreds of persons were doomed before the rescuers could reach the island as the burning lava overtook them before the ' eyes of the men hastening to give them aid the people of kagoshima who had been william l o'connells plea to submit subway plan to the people fam in favor of a comprehensive subway for the city of Chicago there is no difference of opinion amongst * the rank and file of the people the question is of such great importance to the citizens of Chicago that it should be decided by all of the voters the public has suffered under the evil of inadequate transportation for many years and each year the complaints have become louder and more bitter anything less than a comprehensive subway plan w^ll not meet either the requirements or the wili of the people of this city ~ william l o'connell 120 are lost in wreck of royal mail steamer british liner strikes ledges dur ing storm in the bay of fundy halifax x s jan 13 the royal mail steamer co'oefjtfj-i with 120 persons aboard went aground ou briar island in the bay of fundy as she was battling against a terrific storm just before dawn wireless communication with the stranded vessel ceased abruptly at 9 o'clock this morning the operator sent a last flickering message that the engine room of the cobequid was flooded no rr of nn luis been found and her fate is in dcubt the gravest fears for her safety are entertained it is believed she is lost the distress cry of the cobequid which urged immediate aid > a picked np by the wireless station at cape sable across the bay and was relayed to a dozen ves sels they are now struggling against an i icy gale and mountainous seas to reach | the location given liy the cobequid : strikes ledge at sunrise the wrecked steamer was bound for | st john n 8 from the british west [ indies in command of captain haw son blie had a crew of 102 men and about eighteen past.or.gers th first class passengers were w c kenny and captain hicks director and marine su perintendent respectively of the koyal mail steam packet company l s na varre l botta mr and mrs w c zoller and child wallace gallant two i sisters of charity and the misses mar guerite and horothy james four of the passengers were bound for st john and all came from so-lib of bermuda at sunrise the first s o s w ' was re ceived from the cobequid she reported she had struck one of the dread grand m man ledges off briar island on the east side of the bay fragmentary mes sages filtered into the cape sable sta tion for the ncxt few hours each was more alarming than the one preceding following the first call active measures were taken by the american and cana dian governments the new was flashed to the german steamer kronprinzessin cecilie estimated to have been 175 miles south of briar island captain charles polacl immediately changed his course and headed for the cobequid captain polack was formerly in charge of the kaiser wilhelm der grosse an announce ment was made here early to-night that the cecilie had sent a wireless message to the effect that the cobequid had sunk this report is not credited no wreckage sighted the steamer john l cann almost im mediately started from westport x s the nearest point to the scene of the dis aster the cann made a complete circle of briar island but found no trace of the missing steamer xo wreckage was sighted however and this has given rise to the belief that the captain of the cobe quid lost his bearings and that his ship was stranded on the west side of the bay the breaking of the cable cut off com munication with grand manan and no information was obtainable from there not discouraged by the report of the cann which was flashed over the sea the rescuing vessels still continued toward the bay of fundy the government steamer lady laurier was started out from this port for the run of 150 miles to grand manan the steamers belvidere helena and lnns downe joined in the race and the t'nited states revenue cutter woodbury com manded by lieutenant ridgley on her way fro portland to rockland was or dered to hasten to the scene storm delays rescue ships to-night it was discovered the cable steamer tyrian was at anchor behind campobello forty miles from gunnet rock light she was urged to proceed immediately to the aid of the cobequid but she is waiting for better weather conditions some of the steamers are expected to be off gannet rock light by midnight and the woodbury should reach the spot by 5 a m lieutenant ridgley reports the vapor the most dense he has ever seen the lady laurier reported this after noon tbat a heavy northwesterly i.lizzar.l was raging off fort medway that she was rapidly becoming sheathed in ice and m'ght be forced to put into port over night she should however reach grand manan to-morrow cowards as a play is unfit for criticism i the examiner declines to treat the i presentation of prof lovett's work as dramatic art by ashton stevens i the worst of the so-called white slave plays is a hectic flush in com parison with cowards given its un pretty premiere at the fine arts thea ter last night and written by robert m lovett a professor m the university of Chicago derisive laughter was heard in acknowl edgment of this single long play by an american author selected for production at the hands of the almost entirely brit ish company the subject is the precocious amours of a couple of high school children its development results in what may be del icately paraphrased as a school of mal practice every period of the female child's suffering is not only denoted but set forth in bald confession a midwife becomes one of the persouae and the child heroine removed from her audience only by a stage door through which she is hideously audible dies nwed in the last of the lamentable acts such a piece from such a source has no valid claim on dramatic criticism but by its inart and vulgar sensational ism cowards belongs to the first page where the crude facts of war disaster achievement and failure in high places have irrefraglbly their space the Chicago examiner gives it to the day's news condemns it and denies it criticism baroness de pallandt sued for 20,000 member of wealthy Chicago fam ily hurries to egypt special cable ta the ex mlntr london jan 13 the baroness de pallandt of new york and paris was sued in the high court of justice to-day by an american named appleby whose person ality is shroufled in mystery appleby who sold the baroness a string of pearls valued at 30.000 is now suing her for 20,000 under the guarantee of certain bills of exchange the baroness who was recently ill has sailed from new york for egypt and re fuses to pay on the ground that the bills were given for illegal purposes the baroness de pallandt is of a wealthy Chicago family and was miss may dugus nefore she was married in 1893 she was separated from her hus band in 1901 two years later john r kilpatriek a wealthy young new yohter urged her to obtain a divorce and marry him she refused and sailed for europe and soon afterward kilpatrick killed himself in the hotel martinique in november 1912 she obtained a judg ment in the supreme court here against charles b flyun mining eng'neer for 20,238.05 being money advanced to him in 1903 and for which he had given his note auto bandits rob in loop district leap from machine and take 61 i and watch automobile bandits held up harry but 1 tingham 2426 indiana avenue at jack j son boulevard and clark street early to day and took s6l and a gold watch and ' chain buttiugham was walking south in clark street when a large black limousine drew up to the curb and three men jumped out all carried revolvers after taking buttiugham's valuables the men jumped into the machine and drove west in jackson boulevard winston churchill's wife takes rest cure she enters university hospital at baltimore for treatment baltimore md jan 13 mrs win ston churchill wife of the novelist of aiken s c entered the university hos pital here to-day for treatment her con dition is not serious she is to take what she terms the rest cure c a a rebels find applicant is rail roaded initiation fee of h j phelps of Illinois central is returned to him by club the underlying cause of the battle be ing waged in the Chicago athletic asso ciation and which will be decided janu ary 20 at the annual election came to light yesterday with the selection of the insurgent platform one plank reads the names of all applicants for mem bership must be sent by mail by the secretary of the club to each member of the club at least one week in ad vance of the board meeting at which the applications are to be voted upon one reason for the above is to afford an opportunity to every member to speak or forever hold his peace regard ing applicants waiting list of 2,000 the other and the big reason is to ab solutely prevent the election of any appli cant out of his turn in the regular order of priority it has been a supposedly in violate role of the club that applicants must be passed upon in their regular order and there is no wa waiting list of 2,000 thr rule charge the tinsur-entsj^bari been broken and it is further charged that the present vice president of the club clarence f parker candidate for president on the regular ticket was the chief offender he is vice president of the Illinois central railroad somewhere on the waiting list in the three hundred block was the name of h j phelps general passenger agent of the Illinois central railroad mr parker wss chairman of the mem bershlp committee the other two mem bers being w f grower and george walker both of the latter were out of the city when a regular meeting of the membership committee was called and mr phelps was elected phelps fee is returned he immediately paid his initiation fee and the requisite amount of membership fee but some of the members inchidinj r j collins and w k cochrane de tected the fact that his application had been acted upon out of turn he wa immediately notified of that fact and hi initiation and membership fees returned to him \ all i know is that there was some naif take regarding priority of application said mr phelps last night my name i still on the list and some day i hope will be acted upon the complete insurgent ticket is as follows president w h baker vice president f k higbie treasurer f h ra on secretary harold dyrenforth directors william t cooper michael j agnew witt k cochrane george b dryden herman hoelscher and a i i'lamondon norway names first woman diplctaatist mexico city embassy secretary will wear uniform except . special cable to the examiner ohristiaxia jan 13 miss henri etta hoegb to-day was appointed first secretary of the norwegian embassy at mexico city she is the first woman diplomatist so far as history is known miss hoegh will have the right to wear all the usual diplomatic uniform except ing the gold-braided trousers libeler of king wins in u s court new york jan 13 declaring amer ica makes uo distinction between a man who libels a street sweeper and one who libels a king the united states court of appeals to-day affirmed the decision of the lower court permitting edward f mylius english journalist to enter the country mylius served a year in au eng lish prison for charging king george with contracting a morganatic marriage boni to wed cousin of ex-wife's husband anna gould's former spouse thus becomes her relative special cable to the examiner paris jan 13 count boui de castel lane is engaged to countess de talleyrand perlgord cousin of prince helie de sa gan duke de talleyrand perigord hus band of anna gould the duke de talley rand and count boni are also cousins by this marriage count boni will become a relative of his former wife this an nouncement was made by the duke de talleyrand who took occasion to deny the rumor that count boni was engaged to miss anne morgan daughter of the late j pierpont morgan 16 dine in bath pool a finger bowl dip after every course for herr mann and longworth cincinnati jan 13 sixteen prom inent men participated in a banquet n the bath pool of the metropole hotel here to-day they were dressed in striped bathing suits and after each course took a dip in the water the affair was the result of an election bet and the table was set on a float in the pool among those taking part were garry herrmann of the cincinnati reds former congressman nicholas longworth and e k hynicka orville wright wins 15,000,000 action court holds curtiss infringed on heavier-than-air patents new york jan 13 orville wright triumphed to-day after five years litiga tion involving 15,000,000 when the united states court of appeals affirmed the lowe court's decision in favor of the wright company's infringement actions against the herring-curtiss company headed by glenn h curtiss the higher court decided tlie wrights were the first to invent heavior-tlnui-air machines and that they solved the prob lem of lateral balances to combat wino currents also that curtiss invention to preserve proper balances was copied from the wright invention with slight changes president tyler's kin owes board bill baltimore relative can't find brother and haled to court bai.timoue md jan 13 living with his family in an apartment without furniture and having only the clothes they wear thomas z tyler a close rel ative he says of president james tyler was before magistrate henry this morn ing on a charge of nonpayment of a boar 1 bill mr tyler is a man of means but his brother who controls the properties through which he receives his income is off on a hunting trip and cannot be found spitzka dies on eve of alienation case famous anatomist expires on day set for trial new york jan 13 dr edward c spitzka famous alienist best known for his studies of the human brain died suddenly at his home here to-day he was to have appeared in court to day in an action started against him by joseph gershgall for alleged alienation of mrs gershgall's affections mayoress of leeds flies in monoplane calls experience most enjoyable of her life special cable to the examiner london jan ih mrs c it hatciiffe mp/s orpss of leeds made a twenty-min ute flight with harold blackburn to-day on a monoplane she described her expe rience as the most enjoyable in her life cm parker's wife killed by dose of poison mystery veils death at omro wis thursday of million aire's mate strauge circumstances surround the sudden death at omro wis last thurs day of mrs margaret tittemore parker wife of charles m parker millionaire head of the american radiator company who until recently lived at the black stone hotel only yesterday five days after its occurrence was mrs parker's death made known iu Chicago the first account given out was that mrs parker had died of heart disease a very circum stantial story was told that she had left Chicago in the holidays to enter a sani tarium at milwaukee but finding that her brother former state senator j n tittemore president or the grand rapids & milwaukee railway had left milwau kee and gone home to omro for the holidays she had followed him to omro this story going further into details said that mrs parker had left omro for Chicago was seized with a fainting fit on the train at oshkosh had returned to her mother's house at omro nnd there died thursday poison cause of death investigation yesterday showed that this account of the death is untrue mrs parker died not of heart disease as the account given out by the family said but of poison the death certificate on file iu the office of the town clerk m p boderick and signed by dr russell and by un dertaker fred charlesworth says that death was caused by veronal a poisonous product of coal tar dr russell who was questioned yesterday regarding the death declared that the death certificate sets for the exact facts i was just finishing breakfast thurs day morning ' he said " when mrs parker's companion and nurse called me up and asked me to hurry out " why the hurry i asked " i think the patient is gone she re plied i have a fast horse and was out there four miles in a very few miuutes | did she kill herself mrs parker was ea . i should say she had thv,l between 2 and 4 that morn ing it was then about b:2i i exam ined tlie body cheek bones and mouth city clerk fran cis d connery signing the examiner petition to submit the subway question to a vote ot the people let people decide on tunnel says connery by pe-lncis d connery city clerk â€” this is decidedly a question -*- for the people to decide the referendum is the proper way to arrive at the true feel ing of the public i am heartily in favor of it it may be years before the subway is built but everyone will concede that there is great need for some so lution of the present transporta tion problems hoyne urges vote on subway plan by ma-lay hoyne spate's attorney Chicago must have a com â€” prehensive subway it must come sooner or later it has solved the problem of trans portation in london new york and many other cities there is greater need of it here the examiner petition for a referen dum is the best thing that could possibly happen it is a ques tion in which all the people are interested and they should have a voice in the decision of the question citizens in single day get 15,000 petitions on subway scores storm Chicago examiner office to get blanks to ob tain names for referendum vote on comprehensive system factionalism is dropped and business men unite in battle to get adequate rapid transit railway plan for the city following mayor harrison's ringing declaration in favor of a referendum vote on the com prehensive subway plan at the april election and the signing of the ex aminer's petitions by andrew j gra ham and other well-known business men the quest for the 125,000 sig natures necessary to put the proposi tion on the little ballot seemed sure of success yesterday i didn't know just how the mayor stood said many applicants for petition blanks now that i know this is the proposition he stands for i want some petitions i can get the signatures of all my friends factionalism is removed the action of mr graham re moved all questions of factionalism from the fight his declaration that the question ought to be submitted to the people convinced many doubting thomases of the need for quick action and brought many more to the firing line the telephone in the office of the petition editor of the examiner rang constantly throughout the day and a continuous stream of people asking for petition blanks passed in and out a count when the office closed for the night showed that """ nearly 15,000 blanks had been given out and a fresh supply will be on hand this morning ten thousand additional blanks were sent to charles c fitzmorris secretary to mayor harrison and secretary of the cook county democ racy for distribution needs more blanks i underestimated the number we need said mr fitzmorris in the afternoon the 3,600 blanks i took yesterday were gone this morning and i turned applicants away empty-handed i know that more than half of our 1,700 members already have blanks actually in their possession and some of them al ready have them filled with signatures when i get the new supply everybody will be furnished with ajl they want mayor harrison came out yesterday with a stinging reply to some of his critics who have charged that he was anxious to put the park consolidation and the amendment to the utilities bill giving Chicago home rule on the ballot to crowd off the referendum vote on the downtown subway plan accuses traction lines he made the direct charge tnat the tation in favor of the surface line sou ways is due in a large measure iu friends of the companies you wouldn't have to go a mii > i miles from some newspaper oitlces lo lii .â– .; them either be snid lots of these so called friends of the people arc n friends of the companies there has been a lot of pro bono lico bnnk handed out and i am ii"t - to stand by and see it put orra on 'â– â€¢â€¢ public this same line of buni las been handed out ever since i c-.n remember and i don't doubt it was handed â€¢â€¢ t in the days of the i'haraohs some day i will prepare â– h_sa_c to j the council setting forth the truth of the j matter my contention all along bas bee h that the people should decide what kin of a subway they want i have uo inten j rion of putting any obstacle in the wa of any sn-bway proposition but i wamt to 1 see that the people get a fmr s iw i the surface line people alk about my j crowding i heir question oft lie ballot m when la reality q 1 nave done is to luiiiil ajfire under the opul . r ix>rt u n camittee by which "â– <â– bar dually mmm continued on 4th page 3d column continued on 4th page 2d column examiner leads in circulation the daily and sunday examiner in december sold more papers in the city of Chicago than any other two morning papers with several thousand to spare circulation book open to the inspection of any advertiser work for a comprehensive subway sign the petition on page 2 \ ( ' Chicago and vicinity fair />â€” c >. wednesday and probably thursday vygy %*Â»Â» rising temperature moderate to t\~z_2 brisk southerly winds 3r^l rarjbo rnuso of temperatures yesterday vs^^v , highest 27 r**rv \!' - lowest 10 c i > average is.g v_c____s '

Chicago examiner wednesday vol xii no 20 a m wednesday Chicago january 1 4 1 9 1 4 registered in u s patent office price one cent _â€¢__! * a picked np by the wireless station at cape sable across the bay and was relayed to a dozen ves sels they are now struggling against an i icy gale and mountainous seas to reach | the location given liy the cobequid : strikes ledge at sunrise the wrecked steamer was bound for | st john n 8 from the british west [ indies in command of captain haw son blie had a crew of 102 men and about eighteen past.or.gers th first class passengers were w c kenny and captain hicks director and marine su perintendent respectively of the koyal mail steam packet company l s na varre l botta mr and mrs w c zoller and child wallace gallant two i sisters of charity and the misses mar guerite and horothy james four of the passengers were bound for st john and all came from so-lib of bermuda at sunrise the first s o s w ' was re ceived from the cobequid she reported she had struck one of the dread grand m man ledges off briar island on the east side of the bay fragmentary mes sages filtered into the cape sable sta tion for the ncxt few hours each was more alarming than the one preceding following the first call active measures were taken by the american and cana dian governments the new was flashed to the german steamer kronprinzessin cecilie estimated to have been 175 miles south of briar island captain charles polacl immediately changed his course and headed for the cobequid captain polack was formerly in charge of the kaiser wilhelm der grosse an announce ment was made here early to-night that the cecilie had sent a wireless message to the effect that the cobequid had sunk this report is not credited no wreckage sighted the steamer john l cann almost im mediately started from westport x s the nearest point to the scene of the dis aster the cann made a complete circle of briar island but found no trace of the missing steamer xo wreckage was sighted however and this has given rise to the belief that the captain of the cobe quid lost his bearings and that his ship was stranded on the west side of the bay the breaking of the cable cut off com munication with grand manan and no information was obtainable from there not discouraged by the report of the cann which was flashed over the sea the rescuing vessels still continued toward the bay of fundy the government steamer lady laurier was started out from this port for the run of 150 miles to grand manan the steamers belvidere helena and lnns downe joined in the race and the t'nited states revenue cutter woodbury com manded by lieutenant ridgley on her way fro portland to rockland was or dered to hasten to the scene storm delays rescue ships to-night it was discovered the cable steamer tyrian was at anchor behind campobello forty miles from gunnet rock light she was urged to proceed immediately to the aid of the cobequid but she is waiting for better weather conditions some of the steamers are expected to be off gannet rock light by midnight and the woodbury should reach the spot by 5 a m lieutenant ridgley reports the vapor the most dense he has ever seen the lady laurier reported this after noon tbat a heavy northwesterly i.lizzar.l was raging off fort medway that she was rapidly becoming sheathed in ice and m'ght be forced to put into port over night she should however reach grand manan to-morrow cowards as a play is unfit for criticism i the examiner declines to treat the i presentation of prof lovett's work as dramatic art by ashton stevens i the worst of the so-called white slave plays is a hectic flush in com parison with cowards given its un pretty premiere at the fine arts thea ter last night and written by robert m lovett a professor m the university of Chicago derisive laughter was heard in acknowl edgment of this single long play by an american author selected for production at the hands of the almost entirely brit ish company the subject is the precocious amours of a couple of high school children its development results in what may be del icately paraphrased as a school of mal practice every period of the female child's suffering is not only denoted but set forth in bald confession a midwife becomes one of the persouae and the child heroine removed from her audience only by a stage door through which she is hideously audible dies nwed in the last of the lamentable acts such a piece from such a source has no valid claim on dramatic criticism but by its inart and vulgar sensational ism cowards belongs to the first page where the crude facts of war disaster achievement and failure in high places have irrefraglbly their space the Chicago examiner gives it to the day's news condemns it and denies it criticism baroness de pallandt sued for 20,000 member of wealthy Chicago fam ily hurries to egypt special cable ta the ex mlntr london jan 13 the baroness de pallandt of new york and paris was sued in the high court of justice to-day by an american named appleby whose person ality is shroufled in mystery appleby who sold the baroness a string of pearls valued at 30.000 is now suing her for 20,000 under the guarantee of certain bills of exchange the baroness who was recently ill has sailed from new york for egypt and re fuses to pay on the ground that the bills were given for illegal purposes the baroness de pallandt is of a wealthy Chicago family and was miss may dugus nefore she was married in 1893 she was separated from her hus band in 1901 two years later john r kilpatriek a wealthy young new yohter urged her to obtain a divorce and marry him she refused and sailed for europe and soon afterward kilpatrick killed himself in the hotel martinique in november 1912 she obtained a judg ment in the supreme court here against charles b flyun mining eng'neer for 20,238.05 being money advanced to him in 1903 and for which he had given his note auto bandits rob in loop district leap from machine and take 61 i and watch automobile bandits held up harry but 1 tingham 2426 indiana avenue at jack j son boulevard and clark street early to day and took s6l and a gold watch and ' chain buttiugham was walking south in clark street when a large black limousine drew up to the curb and three men jumped out all carried revolvers after taking buttiugham's valuables the men jumped into the machine and drove west in jackson boulevard winston churchill's wife takes rest cure she enters university hospital at baltimore for treatment baltimore md jan 13 mrs win ston churchill wife of the novelist of aiken s c entered the university hos pital here to-day for treatment her con dition is not serious she is to take what she terms the rest cure c a a rebels find applicant is rail roaded initiation fee of h j phelps of Illinois central is returned to him by club the underlying cause of the battle be ing waged in the Chicago athletic asso ciation and which will be decided janu ary 20 at the annual election came to light yesterday with the selection of the insurgent platform one plank reads the names of all applicants for mem bership must be sent by mail by the secretary of the club to each member of the club at least one week in ad vance of the board meeting at which the applications are to be voted upon one reason for the above is to afford an opportunity to every member to speak or forever hold his peace regard ing applicants waiting list of 2,000 the other and the big reason is to ab solutely prevent the election of any appli cant out of his turn in the regular order of priority it has been a supposedly in violate role of the club that applicants must be passed upon in their regular order and there is no wa waiting list of 2,000 thr rule charge the tinsur-entsj^bari been broken and it is further charged that the present vice president of the club clarence f parker candidate for president on the regular ticket was the chief offender he is vice president of the Illinois central railroad somewhere on the waiting list in the three hundred block was the name of h j phelps general passenger agent of the Illinois central railroad mr parker wss chairman of the mem bershlp committee the other two mem bers being w f grower and george walker both of the latter were out of the city when a regular meeting of the membership committee was called and mr phelps was elected phelps fee is returned he immediately paid his initiation fee and the requisite amount of membership fee but some of the members inchidinj r j collins and w k cochrane de tected the fact that his application had been acted upon out of turn he wa immediately notified of that fact and hi initiation and membership fees returned to him \ all i know is that there was some naif take regarding priority of application said mr phelps last night my name i still on the list and some day i hope will be acted upon the complete insurgent ticket is as follows president w h baker vice president f k higbie treasurer f h ra on secretary harold dyrenforth directors william t cooper michael j agnew witt k cochrane george b dryden herman hoelscher and a i i'lamondon norway names first woman diplctaatist mexico city embassy secretary will wear uniform except . special cable to the examiner ohristiaxia jan 13 miss henri etta hoegb to-day was appointed first secretary of the norwegian embassy at mexico city she is the first woman diplomatist so far as history is known miss hoegh will have the right to wear all the usual diplomatic uniform except ing the gold-braided trousers libeler of king wins in u s court new york jan 13 declaring amer ica makes uo distinction between a man who libels a street sweeper and one who libels a king the united states court of appeals to-day affirmed the decision of the lower court permitting edward f mylius english journalist to enter the country mylius served a year in au eng lish prison for charging king george with contracting a morganatic marriage boni to wed cousin of ex-wife's husband anna gould's former spouse thus becomes her relative special cable to the examiner paris jan 13 count boui de castel lane is engaged to countess de talleyrand perlgord cousin of prince helie de sa gan duke de talleyrand perigord hus band of anna gould the duke de talley rand and count boni are also cousins by this marriage count boni will become a relative of his former wife this an nouncement was made by the duke de talleyrand who took occasion to deny the rumor that count boni was engaged to miss anne morgan daughter of the late j pierpont morgan 16 dine in bath pool a finger bowl dip after every course for herr mann and longworth cincinnati jan 13 sixteen prom inent men participated in a banquet n the bath pool of the metropole hotel here to-day they were dressed in striped bathing suits and after each course took a dip in the water the affair was the result of an election bet and the table was set on a float in the pool among those taking part were garry herrmann of the cincinnati reds former congressman nicholas longworth and e k hynicka orville wright wins 15,000,000 action court holds curtiss infringed on heavier-than-air patents new york jan 13 orville wright triumphed to-day after five years litiga tion involving 15,000,000 when the united states court of appeals affirmed the lowe court's decision in favor of the wright company's infringement actions against the herring-curtiss company headed by glenn h curtiss the higher court decided tlie wrights were the first to invent heavior-tlnui-air machines and that they solved the prob lem of lateral balances to combat wino currents also that curtiss invention to preserve proper balances was copied from the wright invention with slight changes president tyler's kin owes board bill baltimore relative can't find brother and haled to court bai.timoue md jan 13 living with his family in an apartment without furniture and having only the clothes they wear thomas z tyler a close rel ative he says of president james tyler was before magistrate henry this morn ing on a charge of nonpayment of a boar 1 bill mr tyler is a man of means but his brother who controls the properties through which he receives his income is off on a hunting trip and cannot be found spitzka dies on eve of alienation case famous anatomist expires on day set for trial new york jan 13 dr edward c spitzka famous alienist best known for his studies of the human brain died suddenly at his home here to-day he was to have appeared in court to day in an action started against him by joseph gershgall for alleged alienation of mrs gershgall's affections mayoress of leeds flies in monoplane calls experience most enjoyable of her life special cable to the examiner london jan ih mrs c it hatciiffe mp/s orpss of leeds made a twenty-min ute flight with harold blackburn to-day on a monoplane she described her expe rience as the most enjoyable in her life cm parker's wife killed by dose of poison mystery veils death at omro wis thursday of million aire's mate strauge circumstances surround the sudden death at omro wis last thurs day of mrs margaret tittemore parker wife of charles m parker millionaire head of the american radiator company who until recently lived at the black stone hotel only yesterday five days after its occurrence was mrs parker's death made known iu Chicago the first account given out was that mrs parker had died of heart disease a very circum stantial story was told that she had left Chicago in the holidays to enter a sani tarium at milwaukee but finding that her brother former state senator j n tittemore president or the grand rapids & milwaukee railway had left milwau kee and gone home to omro for the holidays she had followed him to omro this story going further into details said that mrs parker had left omro for Chicago was seized with a fainting fit on the train at oshkosh had returned to her mother's house at omro nnd there died thursday poison cause of death investigation yesterday showed that this account of the death is untrue mrs parker died not of heart disease as the account given out by the family said but of poison the death certificate on file iu the office of the town clerk m p boderick and signed by dr russell and by un dertaker fred charlesworth says that death was caused by veronal a poisonous product of coal tar dr russell who was questioned yesterday regarding the death declared that the death certificate sets for the exact facts i was just finishing breakfast thurs day morning ' he said " when mrs parker's companion and nurse called me up and asked me to hurry out " why the hurry i asked " i think the patient is gone she re plied i have a fast horse and was out there four miles in a very few miuutes | did she kill herself mrs parker was ea . i should say she had thv,l between 2 and 4 that morn ing it was then about b:2i i exam ined tlie body cheek bones and mouth city clerk fran cis d connery signing the examiner petition to submit the subway question to a vote ot the people let people decide on tunnel says connery by pe-lncis d connery city clerk â€” this is decidedly a question -*- for the people to decide the referendum is the proper way to arrive at the true feel ing of the public i am heartily in favor of it it may be years before the subway is built but everyone will concede that there is great need for some so lution of the present transporta tion problems hoyne urges vote on subway plan by ma-lay hoyne spate's attorney Chicago must have a com â€” prehensive subway it must come sooner or later it has solved the problem of trans portation in london new york and many other cities there is greater need of it here the examiner petition for a referen dum is the best thing that could possibly happen it is a ques tion in which all the people are interested and they should have a voice in the decision of the question citizens in single day get 15,000 petitions on subway scores storm Chicago examiner office to get blanks to ob tain names for referendum vote on comprehensive system factionalism is dropped and business men unite in battle to get adequate rapid transit railway plan for the city following mayor harrison's ringing declaration in favor of a referendum vote on the com prehensive subway plan at the april election and the signing of the ex aminer's petitions by andrew j gra ham and other well-known business men the quest for the 125,000 sig natures necessary to put the proposi tion on the little ballot seemed sure of success yesterday i didn't know just how the mayor stood said many applicants for petition blanks now that i know this is the proposition he stands for i want some petitions i can get the signatures of all my friends factionalism is removed the action of mr graham re moved all questions of factionalism from the fight his declaration that the question ought to be submitted to the people convinced many doubting thomases of the need for quick action and brought many more to the firing line the telephone in the office of the petition editor of the examiner rang constantly throughout the day and a continuous stream of people asking for petition blanks passed in and out a count when the office closed for the night showed that """ nearly 15,000 blanks had been given out and a fresh supply will be on hand this morning ten thousand additional blanks were sent to charles c fitzmorris secretary to mayor harrison and secretary of the cook county democ racy for distribution needs more blanks i underestimated the number we need said mr fitzmorris in the afternoon the 3,600 blanks i took yesterday were gone this morning and i turned applicants away empty-handed i know that more than half of our 1,700 members already have blanks actually in their possession and some of them al ready have them filled with signatures when i get the new supply everybody will be furnished with ajl they want mayor harrison came out yesterday with a stinging reply to some of his critics who have charged that he was anxious to put the park consolidation and the amendment to the utilities bill giving Chicago home rule on the ballot to crowd off the referendum vote on the downtown subway plan accuses traction lines he made the direct charge tnat the tation in favor of the surface line sou ways is due in a large measure iu friends of the companies you wouldn't have to go a mii > i miles from some newspaper oitlces lo lii .â– .; them either be snid lots of these so called friends of the people arc n friends of the companies there has been a lot of pro bono lico bnnk handed out and i am ii"t - to stand by and see it put orra on 'â– â€¢â€¢ public this same line of buni las been handed out ever since i c-.n remember and i don't doubt it was handed â€¢â€¢ t in the days of the i'haraohs some day i will prepare â– h_sa_c to j the council setting forth the truth of the j matter my contention all along bas bee h that the people should decide what kin of a subway they want i have uo inten j rion of putting any obstacle in the wa of any sn-bway proposition but i wamt to 1 see that the people get a fmr s iw i the surface line people alk about my j crowding i heir question oft lie ballot m when la reality q 1 nave done is to luiiiil ajfire under the opul . r ix>rt u n camittee by which "â– â€” c >. wednesday and probably thursday vygy %*Â»Â» rising temperature moderate to t\~z_2 brisk southerly winds 3r^l rarjbo rnuso of temperatures yesterday vs^^v , highest 27 r**rv \!' - lowest 10 c i > average is.g v_c____s '